Object Description
A large English carved and polychrome painted medieval ecclesiastical throne. In the English gothic manner, with finely carved tracery, it is also decorated in the Italianate taste with polychrome paints and water gilding. The tracery panel to the lower seat has original fragments of red velvet, whilst there is a surviving stump work panel to the upper body, depicting the Virgin Mary and two Archangels. The indistinct coat of arms means its exact origin is unclear, although it came from the Winchester area in Hampshire, England.